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IC IVAU

IC IVAU, Instruction Cache line Invalidate by VA to PoU

The IC IVAU characteristics are:

Purpose

Invalidate instruction cache by address to Point of Unification.

Configuration

AArch64 System instruction IC IVAU performs the same function as AArch32 System instruction ICIMVAU.

This instruction is present only when FEAT_AA64 is implemented. Otherwise, direct accesses to IC IVAU are UNDEFINED.

Attributes

IC IVAU is a 64-bit System instruction.

Field descriptions

6362616059585756555453525150494847464544434241403938373635343332
313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
VA
VA

VA, bits [63:0]

Virtual address to use. No alignment restrictions apply to this VA.

Executing IC IVAU

If EL0 access is enabled, when executed at EL0, the instruction may generate a Permission fault, subject to the constraints described in 'MMU faults generated by cache maintenance operations'.

Execution of this instruction might require an address translation from VA to PA, and that translation might fault. For more information, see 'The instruction cache maintenance instruction (IC)'.

This system instruction is an alias of the SYS instruction.

Accesses to this instruction use the following encodings in the System instruction encoding space:

IC IVAU{, <Xt>}

op0op1CRnCRmop2
0b010b0110b01110b01010b001

if !IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64) then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL0 then if AArch64_TreatICAsNOP(CacheType_Instruction, CacheOp_Invalidate, CacheOpScope_PoU) && !AArch64_CanTrapIC(CacheType_Instruction, CacheOp_Invalidate, CacheOpScope_PoU) then ExecuteAsNOP(); elsif !ELIsInHost(EL0) && SCTLR_EL1().UCI == '0' then if EL2Enabled() && HCR_EL2().TGE == '1' then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); else AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL1, 0x18); end; elsif EL2Enabled() && !ELIsInHost(EL0) && HCR_EL2().TPU == '1' then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); elsif EL2Enabled() && !ELIsInHost(EL0) && HCR_EL2().TOCU == '1' then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); elsif EL2Enabled() && !ELIsInHost(EL0) && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_FGT) && (!HaveEL(EL3) || SCR_EL3().FGTEn == '1') && HFGITR_EL2().ICIVAU == '1' then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); elsif ELIsInHost(EL0) && SCTLR_EL2().UCI == '0' then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); else if AArch64_TreatICAsNOP(CacheType_Instruction, CacheOp_Invalidate, CacheOpScope_PoU) then ExecuteAsNOP(); else AArch64_IC(X{64}(t), CacheOpScope_PoU); end; end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if AArch64_TreatICAsNOP(CacheType_Instruction, CacheOp_Invalidate, CacheOpScope_PoU) && !AArch64_CanTrapIC(CacheType_Instruction, CacheOp_Invalidate, CacheOpScope_PoU) then ExecuteAsNOP(); elsif EL2Enabled() && HCR_EL2().TPU == '1' then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); elsif EL2Enabled() && HCR_EL2().TOCU == '1' then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); elsif EL2Enabled() && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_FGT) && (!HaveEL(EL3) || SCR_EL3().FGTEn == '1') && HFGITR_EL2().ICIVAU == '1' then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); else if AArch64_TreatICAsNOP(CacheType_Instruction, CacheOp_Invalidate, CacheOpScope_PoU) then ExecuteAsNOP(); else AArch64_IC(X{64}(t), CacheOpScope_PoU); end; end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then if AArch64_TreatICAsNOP(CacheType_Instruction, CacheOp_Invalidate, CacheOpScope_PoU) && !AArch64_CanTrapIC(CacheType_Instruction, CacheOp_Invalidate, CacheOpScope_PoU) then ExecuteAsNOP(); else if AArch64_TreatICAsNOP(CacheType_Instruction, CacheOp_Invalidate, CacheOpScope_PoU) then ExecuteAsNOP(); else AArch64_IC(X{64}(t), CacheOpScope_PoU); end; end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then if AArch64_TreatICAsNOP(CacheType_Instruction, CacheOp_Invalidate, CacheOpScope_PoU) then ExecuteAsNOP(); else AArch64_IC(X{64}(t), CacheOpScope_PoU); end; end;


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